Houses and the Star of the East public house in Tetley Street
Houses and the Star of the East public house in Tetley Street
Record No
99285
Title
Houses and the Star of the East public house in Tetley Street
Description
View of front elevations of two-storey Victorian terraced houses and the Star of the East public house at 26-40 Tetley Street, Poplar. At the end of the street in the distance on the left, the back of number 51 Ida Street is partly visible. At numbers 36-38 is the Star of the East public house. Attached to the first floor of the pub is a large sign which reads 'The Star Of The East. Mann's Beer'. A large lantern is extending from the building underneath the sign. The two-storey terraced houses likely date from the early nineteenth century. The house at number 34 has wooden shutters attached to the ground-floor window. The neighbouring number 32 appears to be derelict, with its windows boarded up with corrugated iron sheets. At the end of the row in the foreground is number 26 with a wide wooden gate leading to the ground-floor level of the building. The property was likely used as business premises. The broken bricks and rubble at the side of number 26 show evidence of the neighbouring house which once stood on the site, having been destroyed during World War II bombing. A wooden barrow/cart is visible in the foreground. A woman wearing an apron stands at the entrance to number 40. Built into the walls by the front doors are iron boot scrapers which were once used to remove dirt from the shoes of inhabitants and visitors. In Ida Street, towering above the end of the row on the far left is what is likely to be Langdon House, a seven-storey block of flats during construction. The houses were later demolished and four-storey housing on the Langdon Park Estate was built around the site in c1950s-1960s, with a later three-storey apartment building added c2014. A central communal green area between the block of flats was sited roughly where the houses were once situated and the building of c2014 was placed in the space where the centre of the street once stood. All trace of Tetley Street was removed.
Date of execution
1953
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_295_89_120
Accession No
F0839
London picture map location
Exact
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